Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities : a case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma

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Lippi, Gian
Naude, Elna

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Health and Medical Publishing Group

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We report on a rare case of an adult presenting with psychotic symptoms, including prominent thought form disorder and an aphasia. Further investigation revealed the presence of a mature teratoma in the left frontal lobe, which could have played a pathophysiological role in the development of both the psychosis and the language impairment.

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Adult, Psychotic symptoms, Teratoma, Language impairment

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Lippi G, Naude E. Treated for psychosis and presenting with prominent speech and language abnormalities: A case report of an adult with a frontal lobe teratoma. S Afr J Psychiat. 2016;22(1), a924. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/sajpsychiatry.v22i1.924.